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We need a multiplicity of visions, dreams and prophecies – images of potential tomorrows.

Alvin Toffler

There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.
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Change Humans Limits
Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life.
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Change Future Spiritual
In describing today’s accelerating changes, the media fire blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs.
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Change Communication Fire
The customer will become so integrated into the production process that we will find it more and more difficult to tell just who is actually the consumer and the producer.
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Difficult Process Producers
Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.
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Civilization Creative Humanity Restructuring Wave
Designer’s derive their rewards from ‘inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job.
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Committed Jobs People Play Satisfaction
We need people who can see straight ahead and deep into the problems. Those are the experts. But we also need peripheral vision and experts are generally not very good at providing peripheral vision.
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Experts People Vision
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
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Education Illiterate Person Teaching
One of the most highly developed skills in contemporary Western civilization is dissection: the split -up of problems into their smallest possible components. We are good at it. So good, we often forget to put the pieces back together again.
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Again Civilization Good Skills Together
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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Change Men Overwhelmed
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together.
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Computer Next Together
The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday’s success.
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Firsts Survival Yesterday
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise – bureaucrats.
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Despise Inspirational Management
The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I’m talking about an organic computer – about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
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Science Talking Together
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
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Change Changing Life Process
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
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Hazard Progress Technology

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